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For 40 years, rock and roll has continued to reinvent itself, to challenge, to upset as well as delight, to break rules and make new ones. Dancing in the Street is a full-scale salute to that turbulent roller-coaster ride and an accompanying guide to the ten-part BBC series.
Well-known American music journalist Rober Palmer illuminates the roots of rock in the fifties and explores its continuing growth today. In ten key chapters he investigates how the many tributaries-- from blues and gospel to reggae, punk and rap-- converge and connect.
Dancing in the Streets is illustrated with over 150 photographs, and includes new interviews with major artists as well as with often forgotten songwriters, musicians and record producers. Artists as diverse as Bo Diddley, Marvin Gaye, Iggy Pop and the Sex Pistols combine to create an authoritative and engagingly personal history of rock and roll music.